"Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals have no malice, hence also no laughter. They never savor the sudden glory of Schadenfreude. It was its infectious quality that made of laughter a medium of mutuality."

-- Eric Hoffer

#Laughter Quotes #Animal Quotes #Quality Quotes

“Nowadays you can't tell, watch the crotch, it may swell.”

Source : Song: I Don't Wanna Party Wit U
“I believe that a core problem with undergraduate education, especially at research universities like Harvard, Stanford, NYU, etc, is that most teaching is done by PhDs, who by temperament, training, interests, and rewards are researchers first. So they spend most of their time and energy probing a snip of a field's cutting edge. In my view, the attributes needed to be a transformative undergraduate instructor are pretty orthogonal to that. It would seem that undergraduate education would be superior if there was a separate track for teaching faculty.”
“...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.”

Source : Louis Bromfield (1957). “The Green Bay Tree Early Autums A Good Woman .”
“Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.”
“If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice.”

Source : "Peace activist Leymah Gbowee". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. October 5, 2011.
“My kind of success has come a little bit later in life. I'm not 20 any more and these people I've been working with have been successful and good at what they do for a long time.”

Source : "Jeffrey Dean Morgan Interview - P.S. I LOVE YOU". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 18, 2007.
“As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.”
“Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass”

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